Chapter 564 Status is not low

"Finally... left?" Xu Ruxuan was slightly startled when he heard this, and then his face immediately turned ugly, "You mean, that guy Huo Linhai has been hiding outside just now and has not gone far?!"

He is the prefect of Pingxing and an ordinary scholar.

In his eyes, those martial arts masters are silent beings who can't even walk without warning!

He felt that he was usually cautious enough, but now...

It was hard for him to imagine what the consequences would have been if he had turned around and talked to Chi Xinian as soon as Huo Linhai walked out of the courtyard.

That person will discover the queen hiding here...

At that time, not only the lives of the hostages he took will be in danger, but also the queen may be in danger...

Thinking of that situation, Xu Ruxuan shuddered involuntarily.

"Master Xu, there is no need to be afraid. Your housekeeper found no clues here and has already gone far away." Sensing the nervousness of the person around him, Chi Xinian patted him on the shoulder again to comfort him.

After the other party calmed down completely, she spoke again: "You just mentioned... that the butler's name is Huo Linhai? Is this his real name, or...?"

"It should be his real name." At this point, there is no need to name the person who is monitoring him. Xu Ruxuan believes that after just observing in the dark, Chi Xinian has a general understanding of the situation.

So, after calming down his thoughts for a while, he directly talked to him about Huo Linhai: "The surname of the chief steward in the lower government is Huo, but his first name is not Linhai.

"After the gangster detained the man and assumed the identity of the housekeeper, he once told the official that his surname happened to be Huo, so just let the official call him naturally without worrying about any mistakes.

"As for the name Linhai, I accidentally heard one of his subordinates call it that.

"Come to think of it, even if it's not his real name, it's still his code name among the water bandits."

Chi Xinian slightly tilted his head to express understanding.

Immediately, she seized on another important point in the other party's words: "You just said...his subordinates? Why, this person is still a person with status and status in the water bandits' den?"

"He...should have a high status?" Xu Ruxuan was not sure which class the other party belonged to among the water bandits. After all, the other party must be hiding this kind of thing and would not let him come into contact with it.

But based on the information he got from observing people's words: "This Huo Linhai seems to be able to decide a lot of things. I have been with him for many days, and only encountered two situations in which he couldn't make up his mind.

"It seems that he must be someone who can speak out among the gangsters."

"Oh? It sounds like he has a lot of power?" Chi Xinian raised his eyebrows and felt a little interested. "Tell me carefully, which two times did he make up his mind?"

"Once, when His Majesty first heard about the flood in Pingxing but couldn't figure out the reason, he angrily wrote a letter to reprimand the subordinate, and he had great intentions of dismissing him. He was worried that the official would not be able to stay in this position any longer, so he went back to send a letter and asked the people behind him for instructions.

.Another time, it was the empress who insisted on suppressing the bandits, and he couldn't decide what attitude to take to face it," Xu Ruxuan recalled.

After a pause, Xu Ruxuan took the initiative to add: "The official believes that with his reaction like this, he is considered a decisive person among the water bandits.

"As for the person he asked for instructions from, I guess... he may have something to do with the imperial court, or he may even be someone from the imperial court.

"It's just him..."
Chapter completed!